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In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
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The reserved and mysterious Jay Gatsby has been in love with the same girl for 6 years. A young millionaire of unknown origins, he spends his days and nights dreaming of the day when Daisy Fay Buchanan, now married to a man who leads extramarital affairs, will return to him. But even when an acquaintance becomes the path to his reunion with the girl of his dreams, can their romance stand the obstacles of society and the truth of a buried, but not forgotten, past?
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It's the Roaring Twenties, and New York City is the place to be. Everything can be purchased, everyone can be bought. But, can you make money erase your past? As more and more people lose themselves to the lure of money, ironically, the only person who remains unaffected is Jay Gatsby, the enigmatic host of the most extravagant parties ....
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- PublisherMacmillan Education
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0333791037
- ISBN 13 9780333791035
- BindingPaperback
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